In a classic case of biology informing other areas of science, we have NASA scientists at Goddard Space Flight Center, Scott Barthelmy, Gerry Skinner and Jordan Camp who have built a new X-Ray astronomy instrument inspired by the design of a lobster eye with long, compound ommatidium or eye-elements that capture light from a wide […]

This is an interesting news article in Nature that describes alterations in the iris in individuals over time. We’ve always been told that irises do not change as we age, but that simply did not make sense to a number of people I’ve spoken with in the past. Certainly there were questions of trauma and […]

The FASEB meeting on Retinal Neurobiology & Visual Processing will be held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA from July 29 – August 4, 2012. The focus of the meeting is on visual processing in the vertebrate retina, including anatomical, physiological and modeling approaches. In addition, this year we will also discuss the processing of the […]

The pupil is the aperture through which light passes into the eye and is created by the circular ring of thin muscles known as the iris. These images are from a pupilloplasty made with a 10.0 prolene suture. Pupilloplasties are designed to reconstruct the shape of the pupil, typically after traumatic damage or other surgical […]

Retinas are complex systems and engineered rescues of vision loss through bionic means have to date been inelegant solutions. Retinal bionic implants have historically not been successes due to some glaring problems including how to power them and how to get the appropriate current close enough to the cells to induce a response. However, researchers […]

This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Robert E. Marc, J. Scott Lauritzen, Bryan W. Jones, Carl B. Watt and James R. Anderson.

This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Balamurali K. Ambati and Brian C. Stagg. Full size poster can be seen here.

Presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Haibo Wang, Erika S Wittchen, Dallas Shi, Dean Y Li and M. Elizabeth Hartnett. Full size poster can be seen here.

This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Alexandra D. Butler, William D. Ferrell, Alex Woodell, Carl Atkinson, Bärbel Rohrer, Robert E. Marc and Bryan W. Jones.

This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Derick.G. Holt, Subrata K Das, Wei Huang and Balamurali K. Ambati. Full size poster can be seen here.

This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Subrata K. Das, Ling Luo , Xiaohui Zhang, Bonnie Archer, Hironori Uehara, Nirbhai Singh and Balamurali K. Ambati. Full size poster can be seen here.

This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by W. Drew Ferrell, Lloyd Williams, Carl B. Watt, James R. Anderson, Robert E. Marc and Bryan William Jones. Full size (almost) poster can be seen here.

This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Xiaohui Zhang, Ling Luo, Hironori Uehara, Tadashi Miya, Christina Mamalis, Alex Jones, Bonnie Archer and Balamurali K. Ambati. Full size poster can be seen here.

This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Nathan Gooch, Michael Burr, Bruce Gale and Balamurali Ambati. Full size (almost) poster can be seen here.

We are on our way to ARVO, 2012! ARVO is an annual meeting of researchers and clinicians who’s focus is on the visual system. As happened last year, over the next few days, you will see some of our research abstracts appear on Webvision as the presentations are completed at ARVO. We hope that it will […]

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